Choosing the right web service

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My website currently working in ASP.NET 1.1\[code\]Old Process\[/code\]In our database we have huge amount of data stored for a decoding purpose. We have to update this huge set of data table each week(Data is supplied from a vendor).In our website (in asp.net 1.1) we query our database to decode information.\[code\]New process\[/code\]Now instead of storing data in our database and query them, we want to replace this through the web service, AS now the vendor is supplying us a DLL, which will give us the decoded information.Thus we will not have to store those information in our database.So which type of web service I should go for (asmx OR WCF) that will use the DLLs provided by vendor to fetch the decoded information ??\[code\]Flexibility i am looking for in the web service are:\[/code\]

• It can be consumed from \[code\]asp.net 1.1 site directly and also using jQuery ajax\[/code\].
• It can be consumed from \[code\]other web services running on the server\[/code\].
• It can be consumed from \[code\]some windows services running from the server\[/code\].

NOTE : Moreover we have a plan to migrate our website from asp.net 1.1 to 4.0 version in future.So it should be that much supportive for future upgrade.